[Hiring] German Voice Contributor @Welocalize

Role Description

What if your knowledge of German language could help improve the AI.

• Audition with two 30 second samples using your home studio set up.
• Once approved, you will complete two scheduled recording sessions of approximately 4 hours each.
• Participate in natural conversation, prompted discussion, and scripted customer-service scenarios.
• Record from your own home studio setup across both sessions.

Qualifications

• Native-level German (Germany) speaker.
• Natural, authentic, friendly, and conversational customer-service speaking style.
• Access to a professional home recording environment: high-quality microphone, pop filter, and a quiet space free of background noise.
• Ability to record audio meeting technical specifications: WAV format, 24-bit, 48kHz.

Requirements

• An external microphone is absolutely required.
• A dry room with no echo or hollow quality.
• A quiet room with no background noise during recording.
• Minimum Required Gear:
  • Dynamic Mics (best for untreated rooms): Shure SM58, Shure MV7 / MV7+, RODE PodMic / PodMic USB, or similar.
  • Condenser mic (great in a treated room): RODE NT-USB Mini, Blue Yeti / Yeti Orb, Blue Bluebird, Blue Baby Bottle, or similar.
  • Room Treatment: Your recording space should produce studio-quality sound samples – isolation shields, sound absorbing pads, etc.
• Immediately rejected: built-in laptop microphones, phone mics, AirPods, Samsung Buds, headphone-attached mics, headsets, and gaming headsets.
• You must be able to produce audio samples in the following specifications: WAV format, 24-bit, 48 kHz, no compression.
• Free software such as Audacity can produce this. If you cannot export in this format, please do not apply.

Benefits

• Pay Rate: $48/hour.
• Job Type: Freelance.
• Location: Remote (Germany).
• Duration: Approximately 8 hours total across two sessions.
• Start Date: ASAP.